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class="infobox-data">1976–2006</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O9_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/US-O9_insignia.svg/35px-US-O9_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="35" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/US-O9_insignia.svg/53px-US-O9_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/US-O9_insignia.svg/70px-US-O9_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1883" data-file-height="583" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_General_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant General (United States)">Lieutenant General</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Urgent_Fury" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Urgent Fury">Operation Urgent Fury</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Operation_Just_Cause" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Just Cause">Operation Just Cause</a><br /><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">Operation Enduring Freedom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army)" title="Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)">Distinguished Service Medal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Defense_Superior_Service_Medal" title="Defense Superior Service Medal">Defense Superior Service Medal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Merit" title="Legion of Merit">Legion of Merit</a> (2)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal" title="Bronze Star Medal">Bronze Star Medal</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David William Barno</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (born July 5, 1954)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a retired <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_General_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant General (United States)">lieutenant general</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>. He was commander of <a href="/wiki/Combined_Forces_Command-Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan">Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan</a> from 2003 to 2005. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Barno is a native of <a href="/wiki/Endicott,_New_York" title="Endicott, New York">Endicott, New York</a>. He is a graduate of Union Endicott High School Class of 1972. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Barno's military education includes the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" title="United States Military Academy">United States Military Academy</a> (USMA) at <a href="/wiki/West_Point,_New_York" title="West Point, New York">West Point, New York</a> (Class of 1976); <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Infantry_School" title="United States Army Infantry School">Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced courses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Command_and_General_Staff_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Command and General Staff College">Command and General Staff College</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_War_College" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army War College">U.S. Army War College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his civilian studies, he earned a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">Master of Arts</a> degree in National Security and Strategic Studies at <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also is a graduate of the Syracuse University Maxwell School National Security Management Course in 2002. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service_career">Service career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Service career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:General_Barno.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/General_Barno.jpg/222px-General_Barno.jpg" decoding="async" width="222" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/General_Barno.jpg/333px-General_Barno.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/General_Barno.jpg 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Lieutenant General David W. Barno</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Defense.gov_News_Photo_041019-D-9880W-058.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Defense.gov_News_Photo_041019-D-9880W-058.jpg/222px-Defense.gov_News_Photo_041019-D-9880W-058.jpg" decoding="async" width="222" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Defense.gov_News_Photo_041019-D-9880W-058.jpg/333px-Defense.gov_News_Photo_041019-D-9880W-058.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Defense.gov_News_Photo_041019-D-9880W-058.jpg/444px-Defense.gov_News_Photo_041019-D-9880W-058.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>General Barno during a press conference at <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">The Pentagon</a> on October 19, 2004.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brigadier_General_Lloyd_Austin_converse_with_Secretary_of_Defense_Donald_Rumsfeld.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Brigadier_General_Lloyd_Austin_converse_with_Secretary_of_Defense_Donald_Rumsfeld.jpg/222px-Brigadier_General_Lloyd_Austin_converse_with_Secretary_of_Defense_Donald_Rumsfeld.jpg" decoding="async" width="222" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Brigadier_General_Lloyd_Austin_converse_with_Secretary_of_Defense_Donald_Rumsfeld.jpg/333px-Brigadier_General_Lloyd_Austin_converse_with_Secretary_of_Defense_Donald_Rumsfeld.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Brigadier_General_Lloyd_Austin_converse_with_Secretary_of_Defense_Donald_Rumsfeld.jpg/444px-Brigadier_General_Lloyd_Austin_converse_with_Secretary_of_Defense_Donald_Rumsfeld.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="1960" /></a><figcaption>Lieutenant General David Barno converse with <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a> during Barno tenure as Commander, Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan, at <a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar, Afghanistan</a>, December 4, 2003.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Defense.gov_News_Photo_040226-F-6655M-365.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Defense.gov_News_Photo_040226-F-6655M-365.jpg/222px-Defense.gov_News_Photo_040226-F-6655M-365.jpg" decoding="async" width="222" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Defense.gov_News_Photo_040226-F-6655M-365.jpg/333px-Defense.gov_News_Photo_040226-F-6655M-365.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Defense.gov_News_Photo_040226-F-6655M-365.jpg/444px-Defense.gov_News_Photo_040226-F-6655M-365.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3030" data-file-height="1962" /></a><figcaption>Lieutenant General David Barno with Brigadier General <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Austin" title="Lloyd Austin">Lloyd Austin</a> accompanying <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a> during Rumsfeld's visit to <a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar, Afghanistan</a> on February 26, 2004. </figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gen_Barno.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Gen_Barno.jpg/220px-Gen_Barno.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Gen_Barno.jpg/330px-Gen_Barno.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Gen_Barno.jpg/440px-Gen_Barno.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="1960" /></a><figcaption>independently Rumsfeld, Khalizad, & Barno, 2004.</figcaption></figure><p>Barno was commissioned a second lieutenant of <a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">infantry</a> upon graduation from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" title="United States Military Academy">United States Military Academy</a> at <a href="/wiki/West_Point,_New_York" title="West Point, New York">West Point, New York</a>, with the class of June 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-cnas.org_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnas.org-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He started his career with the 25th Infantry Division, where he served as a rifle, weapons and scout platoon leader. He commanded companies in the 25th Infantry Division and the 1st Ranger Battalion, leading a Ranger Rifle Company during the invasion of Grenada in 1983. </p><p>In 1988, Barno joined the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Ranger_Battalion" title="2nd Ranger Battalion">2nd Ranger Battalion</a> as the S-3 (Operations) officer where he played a key role in the planning and execution of the subsequent invasion of Panama. In December 1989, he parachuted with the 75th Ranger Regiment into Rio Hato, Panama during <a href="/wiki/Operation_Just_Cause" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Just Cause">Operation Just Cause</a>. He subsequently served as the aide de camp to the commanding general of the U.S. Army <a href="/wiki/Training_and_Doctrine_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Training and Doctrine Command">Training and Doctrine Command</a>. </p><p>General Barno commanded the 3rd Battalion, <a href="/wiki/505th_Parachute_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="505th Parachute Infantry Regiment">505th Parachute Infantry Regiment</a> in the <a href="/wiki/82nd_Airborne_Division" title="82nd Airborne Division">82nd Airborne Division</a> at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, followed by command of the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Ranger_Battalion" title="2nd Ranger Battalion">2nd Ranger Battalion</a> at Ft Lewis, Washington. Following attendance at the Army War College, he commanded the Warrior Brigade, a multi-functional support brigade at Fort Polk, Louisiana, which supported the Joint Readiness Training Center. He then directed the Joint Task Force training program at Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, Virginia. Between three Ranger Battalion tours and command of the 3rd Bn, 505th PIR in the 82nd Airborne Division, he accumulated over 110 parachute jumps during his career, to include a 500-foot night-time parachute assault into Panama in 1989, during which most jump aircraft were struck by enemy fire. He was twice awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge, and earned the Ranger Tab and Master Parachutist Badge with Combat Jump Star. </p><p>Following selection to brigadier general, General Barno served as the assistant division commander (operations) for the <a href="/wiki/25th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="25th Infantry Division (United States)">25th Infantry Division</a> as well as deputy director of operations, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Pacific_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Pacific Command">U.S. Pacific Command</a>. Barno was promoted to major general in 2001 and served as the commanding general, Ft Jackson, SC, the Army's largest training base. During his time at Ft Jackson, he led Chief of Staff Army Task Forces on the Future Force Soldier and Warrior Ethos. Barno was the principal author of the Army's transformational 2003 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.army.mil/values/warrior.html">Warrior Ethos</a> which dictates: "Mission First, Never Accept Defeat, Never Quit, and Never Leave Behind a Fallen Comrade." In January 2003, Barno was deployed to Hungary as the Commanding General of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Task_Force_Warrior&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Task Force Warrior (page does not exist)">Task Force Warrior</a> tasked to train Free Iraqi Forces in support of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Iraqi Freedom">Operation Iraqi Freedom</a>. </p><p>General Barno was promoted to lieutenant general (three stars) in 2003 at age 49, becoming the first member of his West Point class of 1976 to achieve that distinction. In October 2003, he deployed to Afghanistan where he was designated to establish a three-star headquarters in Kabul and ultimately command over 20,000 Coalition Forces for 19 months as the first commander, Military Operations-Afghanistan (later redesignated <a href="/wiki/Combined_Forces_Command-Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan">Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Central_Command" title="United States Central Command">United States Central Command</a>, Afghanistan). During his tenure, he forged a close relationship with U.S. Ambassador <a href="/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad" title="Zalmay Khalilzad">Zalmay Khalilzad</a>, co-locating his command at the US Embassy compound and creating an integrated civil-military Counter-insurgency campaign plan for Afghanistan focused on the Afghan population.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the absence of an official US military post-Vietnam COIN doctrine, he based his counter-insurgency strategy off his <a href="/wiki/U.S._Military_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Military Academy">U.S. Military Academy</a> Revolutionary Warfare class notes and COIN works by T.E. Lawrence, the USMC <a href="/wiki/Small_Wars_Manual" title="Small Wars Manual">Small Wars Manual</a>, Lewis Sorley's <i>A Better War</i>, and <i>Learning to Eat</i> <i>Soup With a Knife</i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Nagl" title="John Nagl">John Nagl</a>. </p><p>After commanding in Afghanistan, General Barno was reassigned to The Pentagon in Washington, DC where he served briefly on the Army Staff as the assistant chief of staff for installation management (ACSIM) until his decision to retire in the spring of 2006. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-Military_career">Post-Military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Post-Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following his retirement from active duty, Barno served as the director of the <a href="/wiki/Near_East_South_Asia_Center_for_Strategic_Studies" title="Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies">Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies</a> (NESA) at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. from 2006 until April 2010. During this time, he testified over a dozen times before Congress on counter-insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Al Qaeda and Joint Professional Military Education, as well as lectured and wrote extensively on those topics. Barno also travelled widely throughout the Middle East and South Asia region in his NESA director capacity, and lectured at Harvard, Yale, Tufts, Johns Hopkins SAIS, West Point, and the US Army and Naval War Colleges. From 2007 to 2009, he also served as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Veterans and Families for the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs. </p><p>Barno joined the <a href="/wiki/Center_for_a_New_American_Security" title="Center for a New American Security">Center for a New American Security</a> (CNAS) as a senior advisor and Senior Fellow in May 2010,<sup id="cite_ref-cnas.org_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnas.org-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later co-directed the center's Responsible Defense Program. During his tenure, he co-authored a wide range of reports on national strategy and the defense budget, reforming the Defense Department, the war in Afghanistan, and women in the military, as well as independently publishing a number of columns at <i>Foreign Policy'</i>s online journal. In January 2015, he left CNAS to begin his academic career as a Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at American University, and concurrently begin writing the Strategic Outpost column with Dr. Nora Bensahel at the online publication <i>War on the Rocks</i>. He was selected to serve as a member of the Defense Department's Reserve Forces Policy Board in March 2015, a position he held until the board's reorganization in February 2021. He also served as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council from May 2015 to March 2018, where he co-authored with Dr. Bensahel a major report in 2016 entitled <i>The Future of the Army</i>. Barno also served on the US Army War College Board of Visitors from April 2016 until September 2020. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recent_Endeavors">Recent Endeavors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Recent Endeavors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 2018, Barno joined the Johns Hopkins University <a href="/wiki/Paul_H._Nitze_School_of_Advanced_International_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies">Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies</a> (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. as a Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies and Senior Fellow at the Phillip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. At SAIS, he co-teaches four graduate courses with Dr. Nora Bensahel, to include The Human Face of Battle, Military Adaptation Under Fire, Military Basics and Strategy II. </p><p>He is also a core faculty member for the Master of Arts in Strategic, Cybersecurity and Intelligence (MASCI) studies program, which began in 2021. </p><p>Barno and Bensahel published their first book, <i>Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime</i> at Oxford University Press in September 2020. Their Strategic Outpost column at War on the Rocks has featured over 85 columns since its first column was published in January 2015, covering a wide range of national security and defense issues. Barno and Bensahel also speak regularly to diverse military and civilian audiences on leader development, military adaptation and the changing character of war. </p><p>Barno's articles, book reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in <i>Foreign Policy</i>, <i>The Atlantic</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <i>Washington Post,</i> and numerous military journals. He has appeared in interviews for a wide range of television and radio outlets, including CNN, BBC World, PBS NewsHour, C-SPan's Washington Journal, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Government Matters and NPR. </p><p>He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_and_government_issued_awards">Military and government issued awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Military and government issued awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>General Barno's many awards and decorations include the <a href="/wiki/Defense_Distinguished_Service_Medal" title="Defense Distinguished Service Medal">Defense Distinguished Service Medal</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army)" title="Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)">Distinguished Service Medal</a> with <a href="/wiki/Oak_leaf_cluster" title="Oak leaf cluster">oak leaf cluster</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Defense_Superior_Service_Medal" title="Defense Superior Service Medal">Defense Superior Service Medal</a> (three awards), the <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Merit" title="Legion of Merit">Legion of Merit</a> with oak leaf cluster, the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal" title="Bronze Star Medal">Bronze Star Medal</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Meritorious_Service_Medal_(United_States)" title="Meritorious Service Medal (United States)">Meritorious Service Medal</a> (with silver and bronze oak leaf clusters), the <a href="/wiki/NATO_Meritorious_Service_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO Meritorious Service Medal">NATO Meritorious Service Medal</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_State_Meritorious_Honor_Award&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of State Meritorious Honor Award (page does not exist)">Department of State Meritorious Honor Award</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Army_Commendation_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Commendation Medal">Army Commendation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Army_Achievement_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Achievement Medal">Achievement Medals</a> and several campaign and unit awards for combat actions. He also has been awarded the <a href="/wiki/Combat_Infantryman%27s_Badge" class="mw-redirect" title="Combat Infantryman's Badge">Combat Infantryman's Badge</a> <a href="/wiki/Master_Parachutist_Badge" class="mw-redirect" title="Master Parachutist Badge">Master Parachutist Badge</a> with Combat Star, <a href="/wiki/Pathfinder_Badge" class="mw-redirect" title="Pathfinder Badge">Pathfinder Badge</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ranger_Tab" class="mw-redirect" title="Ranger Tab">Ranger Tab</a>, and the German parachutist badge. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dates_of_rank">Dates of rank</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Dates of rank"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Dates of Rank </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Insignia</th> <th>Rank</th> <th>Date </th></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O9_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/US-O9_insignia.svg/54px-US-O9_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="54" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/US-O9_insignia.svg/81px-US-O9_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/US-O9_insignia.svg/108px-US-O9_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1883" data-file-height="583" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant General">LTG</a></td> <td>November 27, 2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O8_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/US-O8_insignia.svg/36px-US-O8_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="36" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/US-O8_insignia.svg/54px-US-O8_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/US-O8_insignia.svg/72px-US-O8_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1252" data-file-height="583" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Major_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General">MG</a></td> <td>February 1, 2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O7_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/US-O7_insignia.svg/20px-US-O7_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/US-O7_insignia.svg/30px-US-O7_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/US-O7_insignia.svg/40px-US-O7_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="622" data-file-height="583" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brigadier_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier General">BG</a></td> <td>January 1, 2000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O6_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/US-O6_insignia.svg/25px-US-O6_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/US-O6_insignia.svg/38px-US-O6_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/US-O6_insignia.svg/50px-US-O6_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="475" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">COL</a></td> <td>September 1, 1996 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O5_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/US-O5_insignia.svg/20px-US-O5_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/US-O5_insignia.svg/30px-US-O5_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/US-O5_insignia.svg/40px-US-O5_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="524" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Colonel">LTC</a></td> <td>February 1, 1992 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O4_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/US-O4_insignia.svg/20px-US-O4_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/US-O4_insignia.svg/30px-US-O4_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/US-O4_insignia.svg/40px-US-O4_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="524" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Major_(rank)" title="Major (rank)">MAJ</a></td> <td>December 1, 1986 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O3_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US-O3_insignia.svg/15px-US-O3_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US-O3_insignia.svg/23px-US-O3_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US-O3_insignia.svg/30px-US-O3_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="534" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Captain_(land)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (land)">CPT</a></td> <td>August 1, 1980 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O2_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US-O2_insignia.svg/6px-US-O2_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US-O2_insignia.svg/9px-US-O2_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US-O2_insignia.svg/12px-US-O2_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/First_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="First Lieutenant">1LT</a></td> <td>June 2, 1978 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O1_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/US-O1_insignia.svg/6px-US-O1_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/US-O1_insignia.svg/9px-US-O1_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/US-O1_insignia.svg/12px-US-O1_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Second_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Lieutenant">2LT</a></td> <td>June 2, 1976 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-12-12</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=West+Point+Association+of+Graduates&rft.atitle=David+William+Barno&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westpointaog.org%2FFindaGradDisplay%3Freid%3DvXqwhmxEz%252bv7NpqSV0VTCA%253d%253d%26bbsys%3D0%26bbrt%3D0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Barno" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTucker2015" class="citation book cs1">Tucker, Spencer C., ed. (2015). "Barno, David William (1954–)". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=d8EnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150"><i>U.S. Conflicts in the 21st Century: Afghanistan War, Iraq War, and the War on Terror</i></a>. ABC-CLIO. p. 150. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781440838798" title="Special:BookSources/9781440838798"><bdi>9781440838798</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2014-05-06</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=LTG+David+W.+Barno%2C+USA+%28Ret.%29+%26%23124%3B+Center+for+a+New+American+Security&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnas.org%2Fpeople%2Fexperts%2Fstaff%2Flieutenant-general-david-w-barno-usa-ret&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Barno" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Chapter 21, 'Storm Clouds,' in <a href="/wiki/Fred_Kaplan_(journalist)" title="Fred Kaplan (journalist)">Fred Kaplan</a>, 'The Insurgents,' <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>, New York, 2013, 319-321.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_Barno" class="citation web cs1">David Barno. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-barno/">"David Barno"</a>. <i>The Atlantic</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Atlantic&rft.atitle=David+Barno&rft.au=David+Barno&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fauthor%2Fdavid-barno%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Barno" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li>Auerswald, David P. & Stephen M. Saideman, eds. <i>NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone</i> (Princeton U.P. 2014) This book breaks down the history of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan down by deployed commander. It covers Barno's struggle to implement a strategy for Afghanistan that was more COIN-focused than Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a> approved of.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Barno&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>National Defense University, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090209222039/http://www.ndu.edu/nesa/facultystaffbios/BarnoD.pdf">Barno biography</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.gomo.army.mil/Ext/Portal/Files/Download.ashx?id=4386">https://www.gomo.army.mil/Ext/Portal/Files/Download.ashx?id=4386</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.defense.gov/dodcmsshare/newsphoto/2004-08/040811-F-5586B-008.jpg">http://www.defense.gov/dodcmsshare/newsphoto/2004-08/040811-F-5586B-008.jpg</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?1005188">Appearances</a> on <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #CF9C65;">Military offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Dan_K._McNeill" title="Dan K. 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